Kelly Clarkson · My December

Never Again

Never Again is in G minor at 146 beats per minute.

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Tempo

146 BPM · Allegromedian of 261 analyses · 146–146 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
261people who ran the extractor
One beat
411milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.73dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.962Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.068Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

261 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 261 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 146 BPM one beat lasts 411 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.7 ms and a dotted eighth 308.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73 BPM, counted twice as fast 292. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.73 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.962 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in G minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with G minor

Each of these differs from G minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 146 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41643.80.61
Half note2821.91.22
Dotted quarter1.5616.41.62
Quarter note (one beat)14112.43
Quarter triplet0.6672743.65
Dotted eighth0.75308.23.24
Eighth note0.5205.54.87
Eighth triplet0.3331377.3
Dotted sixteenth0.375154.16.49
Sixteenth note0.25102.79.73
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.514.6
Thirty-second note0.12551.419.47

Half time 73 BPM · double time 292 BPM. Every row is one beat (411 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Still Get JealousLouis ArmstrongG minor147BPM
  2. PsychoSystem of a DownG minor145BPM
  3. Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?Bryan AdamsG minor145BPM
  4. PlushStone Temple PilotsG minor144BPM
  5. Shine On You Crazy DiamondPink FloydG minor144BPM
  6. Get Down, Make LoveQueenG minor144BPM
  7. The WhispererDavid Guetta feat. SiaG minor143BPM
  8. MythBeach HouseG minor142BPM
  9. Hand of DoomBlack SabbathG minor142BPM
  10. Heart Full of SoulThe YardbirdsG minor141BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 146 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 146 BPMG minor at 140–149 BPMKelly Clarkson

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 24639d54-7196-4a65-8a53-15f86dd5425d.